Palashipara Assembly Elections 2016

The coming 2016 assembly poll to Palashipara will witness keen contest between CPIM, Trinamool Congress, and BJP. The Congress will play as catch up. The CPM had won all the there assembly seats in Tehatta subdivision in nadia district, Karimpur, Tehatta and Palashipara- in 2011.

Palashipara Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate

Party Name

Results

Tapas Kumar Saha

AITC

Won82127

S.M.Sadi

CPM

76568

Bibhash Chandra Mandal

BJP

14028

Monoj Roy

SHS

3117

Batshobha Sekh

SUCI(C)

2571

Nota

Nota

1990

Dwijen Biswas

BSP

1576

Fajlur Rahaman Sekh

SDPI

583

West Bengal Election

Palashipara assembly constituency is currently represented in the West Bengal assembly by the CPM legislator S.M. Sadi who won the seat by defeating Manik Bhattacharjee of TMC by 1652 votes in 2011. While 73619 votes were polled by S.M. Sadi, the TMC nominee received 71967 votes and was remotely followed by BJP’s Arjun Kumar Biswas who got 8,145 votes. S.M. Sadi is one of the 59 Muslim MLAs who were elected to the West Bengal legislative assembly in 2011. In 2011 Congress had forged an alliance with the TMC. The CPM has been winning all the assembly elections to Palashipara since 1977.

One of the seventeen assembly constituencies located in the Nadia district of West Bengal, Palashipara contains under its territorial jurisdiction Chanderghat and PatharghataII gram panchayats of Tehatta- 1 block, Tehatta -2 block, and Bilkumari, Bikrampur, Dhananjaypur and Haranagar gram panchayats of Palashipara block.

Palashipara is one of the seven assembly segments the combination of which creates the Lok Sabha constituency of Krishnanagar. In the assembly election to Palashipara in 2011, the constituency had a total of 185525 electors. Of them, 98044 were males and 87481 were female voters.